Marina Tsvetaeva
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva was a Russian poet. Her work is some of the best known in twentieth-century Russian literature. She lived through and wrote about the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent Moscow famine.
Background
- Born in
- Moscow
- Educated at
- University of Paris
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1892
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Birth1941
Died
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